UC Irvine Healthcare’s Comprehensive Brain Tumor Program treats adult and pediatric patients with brain, spinal cord and peripheral nerve tumors. The team includes skilled neurosurgeons and Orange County’s only fellowship-trained neuro-oncologist, as well as specialists in radiation oncology, neuropathology, neuroradiology and neuropsychology.

Our multidisciplinary program is fully integrated and coordinated through effective neuro-oncology nurse facilitators. Together, our compassionate clinical team ensures that patients receive optimized and individualized clinical services and experience seamless transition from outpatient to inpatient care. Services:

• We offer innovative approaches and treatments of primary and metastatic brain tumors resulting from break-throughs in clinical research as well as collaborations with leading nationally recognized consortiums.
  
  
• We provide skull base, cranial and spinal surgery aided by the latest image-guided and minimally invasive technologies, including intraoperative MRI and skull base endoscopy.
  
  
• We tailor chemotherapy treatments to the patient’s molecular make-up, including new therapies to overcome resistance to traditional chemotherapy.
  
  
• We offer Gamma Knife stereotactic radiosurgery with the latest Gamma Knife PerfeXion unit.
  
  
• We perform intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) and spine radiosurgery with the Varian Trilogy linear accelerator.
  
  
• We provide comprehensive treatment of short-term and long-term complications from radiation and chemotherapy.
  
  
• We manage neurological complications of brain tumors.
  
  
• We monitor and improve the quality of live for our brain tumor patients.
  
  
• We collaborate closely with patients, caregivers and local physicians.